Video: ObamArrogance

Barack Obama has a theory about why you do not appreciate him: You’re stupid.

For months, the president has insisted the reason his part is facing an electoral apocalypse is less than two weeks is that the American people fail to properly understand how great he is. The solution, he insists, is more of him. Obama told a campaign stop in Seattle earlier today he could have sold his policies better. He insisted, “We had to move so fast, we were in such emergency mode, that it was very difficult for us to spend time a lot doing victory laps and advertising exactly what we were doing because we had to move onto the next thing.”

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He manfully offered, “I take some responsibility for that.” The fifty-cent-piece stops here.

Last Saturday, Obama stood before a “small Democratic fundraiser” where he told those assembled, “Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared.” The trouble is, Republicans are “playing on fear.” If you think you’ve heard this line before, you’re right. Last summer, when ObamaCare seemed doomed, he said August was the month everyone gets “all wee-weed up.” As a candidate for office, jest-plain-folks Obama told a San Francisco fundraiser:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them….And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

But more than anything to Americans, they signal a virtually fathomless arrogance. President Obama looks at most of the American people like this guy:

And he has made clear, no matter how loudly the American people speak, there is no turning back.

President Clinton is remembered fondly, by some at least, because a Republican Congress forced him to compromise or quit, and he famously trimmed his sails to the new political realities.

Obama has replaced triangulation with bloviation.

In his heart, he knows he’s right — that he represents “progress,” that voters have to “guard the change”! He inveighs that “We can go backward, or we can keep moving forward. And I don’t know about you, but I want to move forward.” Democratic pollsters Stan Greenberg and James Carville have found this line drives voters to vote Republican.

But Obama pushes on, no matter the stress it places on his family, his schedule, or his jaw. He keeps talking and talking and talking, and none of you people appreciate him in the least.

The Obama administration is the most ideologically committed presidency in memory, and like its intellectual forebears, it will stop at virtually nothing to enact its agenda. The American constitution presents few problems to agenda — it has been a dead letter for generations, anyway. But the portions still enforced — such as democratic elections, three branches of government, etc — must be worked around.

To the extent the yokels must be motivated, Obama’s Office of Public Engagement keeps the base fire up, ready to go, and the majority of Americans snowed. This administration has emphasized propaganda like no peacetime predecessor.

Jarrett, who heads OPE, uncorked a series of jaw-dropping whoppers in her most recent media haul. Obama, she informed us:

“always keeps an even tone and…he always looks for the better angels in people”…

“I think he is not a slick politician,” Jarrett said. “He doesn’t have the shtick, you know, the way a lot of politicians do. He’s completely sincere and true and I think people are not used to seeing that in their politicians. So it’s taking people a while to realize that he’s actually a real person and he’s not just trying to pretend and fool them and trick them into thinking he’s something else. He’s exactly who he is,” she said. “He doesn’t do the theater.” (In 2008, his aides liked to call him “no drama, Obama.”)

The problem Obama’s propaganda is not just its pernicious impact on the nation, its faint echo of totalitarian regimes gone by, or its forced conscription of conservatives’ funds on its behalf — it is the eye-rolling inanity of it all.

Obama has no interest in a democratic republic, the will of the majority, or the rule of law. His plan is to shove through as much “change” as possible in the knowledge some of his schemes may never be undone. Tax rates fluctuate — but new entitlements require a major overhaul of the nation’s economic infrastructure. Economic policies encouraging risk-taking and entrepreneurship only go so far is the national character has been so degraded by long-term unemployment benefits and food stamps that the people are no longer employable. If people become used to turning to government for health care, or get used to receiving money from the government in their paychecks (however tiny a pittance Obama began in 2009), they cease to look to provide for their own needs. Europe’s example also shows us tampering with the military and the family unit could wreak havoc for generations.

Until Obama can form the New Soviet Man on our shores, he will continue to advance his agenda by propaganda, by bribery — even, as he has recently speculated, by executive order. Perhaps it is fitting in his most recent assault on the current American people he loathes, Obama made an inadvertent admission: “The country is scared, and they have good reason to be.”